Includes bibliographical references and index.

Benefiting from the wondrous new museum -- Documenting life in the Southwest -- Selling the southwesternist perspective -- Forming communities of artists -- Becoming a modernist destination -- Conflicting aesthetic outlooks -- Reviving culture by rejecting cheap tourism -- Alleviating the effects of the great Depression -- Refining modernist perspectives during the 1930s -- Shifting attitudes during the Cold War -- Embracing and rejecting formalism -- Expanding vistas: pluralism -- Reconceptualizing the Southwest.

"For the past 125 years, art in New Mexico has told a complex story of cultural interactions: Native peoples and expedition photographers, tourism and the railroad, the rise of the artist colonies, the arrival of modernism, Trinity and the end of romanticism, and new generations of indigenous artists challenging ethnic identity." "The Art of New Mexico: How the West Is One investigates these cultural fusions by analyzing seminal works from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The 225 selected works demonstrate the extent to which Native American, Hispanic, and European-American aesthetic tradition have always been intertwined in Southwest art."--Jacket

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